ec2_group - maintain an ec2 VPC security group.¶

New in version 1.3.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Support
- Author

Synopsis ¶

maintains ec2 security groups. This module has a dependency on python-boto >= 2.5

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

boto
boto3
python >= 2.6

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
aws_access_key		AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key		AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
description		Description of the security group. Required when `state` is `present`.
ec2_url		Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
group_id (added in 2.4)		Id of group to delete (works only with absent). One of and only one of name or group_id is required.
name		Name of the security group. One of and only one of name or group_id is required. Required if state=present.
profile (added in 1.6)		Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
purge_rules (added in 1.8)	Default: true	Purge existing rules on security group that are not found in rules
purge_rules_egress (added in 1.8)	Default: true	Purge existing rules_egress on security group that are not found in rules_egress
purge_tags bool (added in 2.4)	Choices: no yes ←	If yes, existing tags will be purged from the resource to match exactly what is defined by tags parameter. If the tags parameter is not set then tags will not be modified.
region		The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
rules		List of firewall inbound rules to enforce in this group (see example). If none are supplied, no inbound rules will be enabled. Rules list may include its own name in `group_name`. This allows idempotent loopback additions (e.g. allow group to access itself). Rule sources list support was added in version 2.4. This allows to define multiple sources per source type as well as multiple source types per rule. Prior to 2.4 an individual source is allowed. In version 2.5 support for rule descriptions was added.
rules_egress (added in 1.6)		List of firewall outbound rules to enforce in this group (see example). If none are supplied, a default all-out rule is assumed. If an empty list is supplied, no outbound rules will be enabled. Rule Egress sources list support was added in version 2.4. In version 2.5 support for rule descriptions was added.
security_token (added in 1.6)		AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used. aliases: access_token
state (added in 1.4)	Choices: present ← absent	Create or delete a security group
tags (added in 2.4)		A dictionary of one or more tags to assign to the security group.
validate_certs bool (added in 1.5)	Choices: no yes ←	When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.
vpc_id		ID of the VPC to create the group in.

Notes ¶

Note

If a rule declares a group_name and that group doesn’t exist, it will be automatically created. In that case, group_desc should be provided as well. The module will refuse to create a depended-on group without a description.
Preview diff mode support is added in version 2.7.
If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION
Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

Examples ¶

- name: example using security group rule descriptions
  ec2_group:
    name: "{{ name }}"
    description: sg with rule descriptions
    vpc_id: vpc-xxxxxxxx
    profile: "{{ aws_profile }}"
    region: us-east-1
    rules:
      - proto: tcp
        ports:
        - 80
        cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
        rule_desc: allow all on port 80

- name: example ec2 group
  ec2_group:
    name: example
    description: an example EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    aws_secret_key: SECRET
    aws_access_key: ACCESS
    rules:
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 80
        to_port: 80
        cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 22
        to_port: 22
        cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/8
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 443
        to_port: 443
        # this should only be needed for EC2 Classic security group rules
        # because in a VPC an ELB will use a user-account security group
        group_id: amazon-elb/sg-87654321/amazon-elb-sg
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 3306
        to_port: 3306
        group_id: 123412341234/sg-87654321/exact-name-of-sg
      - proto: udp
        from_port: 10050
        to_port: 10050
        cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/8
      - proto: udp
        from_port: 10051
        to_port: 10051
        group_id: sg-12345678
      - proto: icmp
        from_port: 8 # icmp type, -1 = any type
        to_port:  -1 # icmp subtype, -1 = any subtype
        cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/8
      - proto: all
        # the containing group name may be specified here
        group_name: example
      - proto: all
        # in the 'proto' attribute, if you specify -1, all, or a protocol number other than tcp, udp, icmp, or 58 (ICMPv6),
        # traffic on all ports is allowed, regardless of any ports you specify
        from_port: 10050 # this value is ignored
        to_port: 10050 # this value is ignored
        cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/8

    rules_egress:
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 80
        to_port: 80
        cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
        cidr_ipv6: 64:ff9b::/96
        group_name: example-other
        # description to use if example-other needs to be created
        group_desc: other example EC2 group

- name: example2 ec2 group
  ec2_group:
    name: example2
    description: an example2 EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    rules:
      # 'ports' rule keyword was introduced in version 2.4. It accepts a single port value or a list of values including ranges (from_port-to_port).
      - proto: tcp
        ports: 22
        group_name: example-vpn
      - proto: tcp
        ports:
          - 80
          - 443
          - 8080-8099
        cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
      # Rule sources list support was added in version 2.4. This allows to define multiple sources per source type as well as multiple source types per rule.
      - proto: tcp
        ports:
          - 6379
          - 26379
        group_name:
          - example-vpn
          - example-redis
      - proto: tcp
        ports: 5665
        group_name: example-vpn
        cidr_ip:
          - 172.16.1.0/24
          - 172.16.17.0/24
        cidr_ipv6:
          - 2607:F8B0::/32
          - 64:ff9b::/96
        group_id:
          - sg-edcd9784
  diff: True

- name: "Delete group by its id"
  ec2_group:
    group_id: sg-33b4ee5b
    state: absent

Return Values ¶

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
description string	on create/update	Description of security group Sample: My Security Group
group_id string	on create/update	Security group id Sample: sg-abcd1234
group_name string	on create/update	Security group name Sample: My Security Group
ip_permissions list	on create/update	Inbound rules associated with the security group. Sample: [{'from_port': 8182, 'ip_protocol': 'tcp', 'ipv6_ranges': [], 'to_port': 8182, 'ip_ranges': [{'cidr_ip': '1.1.1.1/32'}], 'user_id_group_pairs': [], 'prefix_list_ids': []}]
ip_permissions_egress list	on create/update	Outbound rules associated with the security group. Sample: [{'ip_protocol': -1, 'ip_ranges': [{'ipv6_ranges': [], 'cidr_ip': '0.0.0.0/0', 'user_id_group_pairs': [], 'prefix_list_ids': []}]}]
owner_id int	on create/update	AWS Account ID of the security group Sample: 123456789012
tags dict	on create/update	Tags associated with the security group Sample: {'Name': 'My Security Group', 'Purpose': 'protecting stuff'}
vpc_id string	on create/update	ID of VPC to which the security group belongs Sample: vpc-abcd1234

Status ¶

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as core which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Core Team, see here.

Support ¶

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author ¶

Andrew de Quincey (@adq)

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